Kioxia's 15.36TB CM9-R Brings BiCS8 NAND to Enterprise Gen5 SSDs

Kioxia's CM9-R is the company's first enterprise SSD family based on eighth-generation BiCS flash, according to StorageReview. The reviewed 15.36TB E3.S model delivered up to 3.4 million random-read IOPS and 14.8 GB/s sequential-read performance while carrying a typical active power rating of 25W. Enterprise Gen5 SSDs are increasingly judged not only by peak throughput but also by how much of that performance they retain at low queue depths, where many real data-center applications operate. The product is a technology and performance update rather than a new market-wide supply or price signal.